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New Books List: 489 titles

  • That Bad, Bad Cat!

    Claire Masurel

    What a bad, bat cat! He tears the pillows, he eats the plants, and he even scratches the furniture. He just won't behave! But his family loves him anyway. The simple and repetitive text will provide new readers with a true sense of accomplishment whe...

  • Here We Go Round

    Shane Evans

    The year is 1946. Seven-year-old Roberta lives in Washington, D.C., with her parents -- but this summer they send her to live with her grandparents in rural North Carolina for one month while her mother is on bed rest for a difficult pregnancy.
    ...

  • Eat A Bowl Of Tea

    Louis Chu

    At the close of the Second World War, racist immigration laws trapped enclaves of old men in Chinatowns across the United States, preventing their wives or families from joining them. They took refuge from loneliness in the repartee and rivalries exc...

  • Out of Control

    Suzanne Brockmann

    Savannah von Hopf has no choice. To save her uncle's life, she goes in search of Ken "WildCard" Karmody, a guy she barely knew in college who is now a military operative. She must convince him to help her deliver a cache of ransom money into the hand...

  • Dream Island

    Josie Litton

    The legendary island nation of Akora has shunned outsiders for centuries, but fate is about to deliver a young Englishwoman into the arms of its prince -- and sweep them both into a daring love that knows no boundaries.... DREAM ISLAND Lady Joa...

  • The Lucifer Light

    Michael Salazar

    Front-line, behind-the-scenes military adventure that will steal your breath and take you deep inside the world of the nation’s most lethal human weaponsâ€"from an Air Force Combat Crewmember who’s seen the light . . .Whether on a call to rescue...

  • Summerblood

    Tom Deitz

    In this stirring sequel to the epic dramas Bloodwinter and Springwar, a new king must strive to heal a war-torn land, master a dangerous and world-altering magic, and defeat a secret and fanatical religious sect that will stop at nothing to gain tota...

  • Reunion

    Alan Dean Foster

    Using his enhanced empathic abilities, Flinx finesses his way into a top-secret security installation on Earth. Once there, he bamboozles a sophisticated AI program into releasing classified information about the Meliorare Society, the sect of renega...

  • Meltdown

    James Powlik

    A DEADLY SECRET LIES BURIED BENEATH THE WORLD'S LAST FRONTIER Dr. Carol Harmon has taken her research vessel, the Phoenix; deep into one of the most forbidding places in the world, the ceaselessly shifting Arctic icescape. In one frightening momen...

  • Dragon Bones

    Patricia Briggs

    PLAYING THE FOOL Most everyone thinks Ward of Hurog is a simple-minded fool--and that's just fine by him. But few people know that his foolishness is [very convincingly] feigned. find that it's all that's saved him from death at the hands of his a...

  • In the Bedroom

    Andre Dubus

    The seven stories collected hereâ€"including “Killings,” the basis for Todd Field’s award-winning film In the Bedroomâ€"showcase legendary writer Andre Dubus’s sheer narrative mastery in a book of quietly staggering emotional power.

    A ...

  • At Fault

    Kate Chopin

    Thérèse Lafirme, a beautiful and resourceful Creole woman, is widowed at age thirty-two and left alone to run her Louisiana plantation. When Thérèse falls in love with David Hosmer, a divorced businessman, her strong moral and religious convictio...

  • Space

    Mary Pope Osborne

    It’s a new kind of adventure for Jack and Annie! Join them as they research space and find out the facts behind the fiction! ...

  • The Panda Puzzle

    Ron Roy

    P is for Panda. . . . There’s pandemonium in Green Lawn! The town is building a new park for a panda and her baby. But as soon as the pandas arrive, the baby is stolen! All the panda-nappers want in return is a million dollars. . . . Can Dink, Jos...

  • Thumper

    Disney Book Group

  • Happily Ever After

    Jennifer Weinberg

    Join Ariel, Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Belle as each princess meets her prince for the first time -- then watch as they begin their new lives together! This big board book features a different Disney Princess on each of its five col...

  • Money Wanders

    Eric Dezenhall

    Jonah Eastman, disgraced Presidential pollster, is summoned home to Atlantic City by his ailing grandfather Mickey Price--a legendary Atlantic City gangster and owner of the Golden Prospect casino. When Mickey dies, Jonah is "persuaded" by mob boss M...

  • The Shadow Boxer

    Steven Heighton

    This is the story of Sevigne Torrins, poet and boxer, who sets out to make it in the world but whose sexual and professional misadventures take him from a demanding, muscular boyhood on the shores of Lake Superior to the trendy, bohemian life of Toro...

  • Attack of the Apollyon

    Tim LaHaye; Jerry B. Jenkins

    As freezing temperatures envelop the earth, Judd tries to figure out his next move. Lionel struggles to help a friend. Back at the schoolhouse. Vicki pulls the kids together in the midst of the worst judgment yet. Mark prepares to meet a mysterious f...

  • A Dangerous Plan

    Tim LaHaye; Jerry B. Jenkins

    Amid screams of agony from the scores of people affected by the latest judgment, the Young Trib Force struggles to stay alive as terrifying demons take over the earth. In Israel, Judd, Lionel, and Samuel hatch a plan to tell Sam's father the truth...

  • Little Brown Hen's Shower

    Pamela Duncan Edwards

    Zara, Ziggy and Zoe are three little witches who live in the magic wood. Join them in their magical world, where signposts give directions out loud, calendars sing, cookbooks have minds of their own, and party inviations fly out on wings. Together wi...

  • My World of Color

    Margaret Wise Brown

    Well-loved for her books for young children, Margaret Wise Brown excels in bringing attention to the smallest details in a child's world. Here she introduces the concept of color to children with a wonderfully playful, lyrical text. Loretta Krupinski...

  • Ghost Towns

    Betsy Thornton

    When former investigator Chloe Newcombe swapped her fast-paced New York City lifestyle for the solitude of the Arizona desert, she figured she was getting herself a peaceful life. But working as a victims' advocate has taught her that even the smalle...

  • Bermuda Grass

    Keith Miles

    Alan Saxon is helping to design a golf course at a new hotel in Bermuda. When his daughter, Lynette, agrees to spend a week on the island with him, he envisages an idyllic holiday. He is soon disillusioned. To begin with, Lynette brings a fellow-stud...

  • Thunderbird

    Susan Slater

    CLOSE ENCOUNTER The fiery crash of a Stealth fighter on a New Mexico reservation and the disappearance of a young Navajo woman put psychologist Ben Pecos on a sinister trail leading into the world of military cover-ups, UFOs and aliens. Tribal ...

  • The Weight of All Things

    Sandra Benitez

    "Bentez's third novel seamlessly blends fact with imagination, evoking the trauma of war more vividly than any newspaper account . . . beautifully illuminating." (Publishers Weekly starred review)

    Sandra Bentez received international acclaim ...

  • Star Wars Tales Vol. 1

    Marvel Book Group

    Collects Star Wars Tales (1999) #1-4. Collecting the first four issues of the anthology smash sensation, Star Wars Tales contains thrilling stories featuring Darth Vader, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Han Solo, Emperor Palpatine, C-3PO, R2-D2, Lando Calrissian an...

  • Punisher, Volume 2: Army of One

    Garth Ennis

    A white skull on a field of black. In the Marvel Universe, no symbol inspires fear in the hearts of criminals like the stark calling card of the Punisher. His wife and children killed in a mob shootout, former serviceman Frank Castle wages a one-man ...

  • Bones of the Earth

    Michael Swanwick

    Modern technology is pitted against ancient dinosaurs in this scientific thriller James Rollins calls “Jurassic Park set amid the paradox of time travel.”   Paleontologist Richard Leyster is perfectly content in his position with the Smithso...

  • Transcension

    Damien Broderick

    Aleph is a machine mentality overseeing a future Earth largely bereft of humans, most of whom have sublimed into a virtuality.Remaining are the smug but cautious adherents of science. Amanda, still a teen at age 30, is a skilled violinist and mathema...

  • Gramercy Park

    Paula Cohen

    New York City, 1894. To Gramercy Park, bordered by elegant town houses, cloistered behind its high iron fence, comes Mario Alfieri, the world's greatest tenor. Poised for his premier at the Metropolitan Opera, the summit of society, the handsome Al...

  • Girls' Poker Night

    Jill A. Davis

    Dissatisfied both with writing a “Single Girl on the Edge/ Ledge/Verge” lifestyle column and with her boyfriend (who has a name for his car and compulsively collects plastic bread ties), Ruby Capote sends her best columns and a six-pack of beer t...

  • Motorcycle Song

    Diane Siebert

    sharing roads with trucks and carsboth hands on the handlebarsthere's the motorcycle guyon his cycleriding by

    A motorcycle will take you anywhere a road can go. The rush of speed, the hum of the engine, and the exhilaration ...

  • Cecil's Garden

    Holly Keller

    Jake carried the hoe. Posey brought the watering can. And Cecil held the seeds. It was time to plant the garden. But then the trouble started. No one could agree on what to plant, and soon it was too hot to work. Sadly, Cecil went off to visit the...

  • Mindquakes: Stories to Shatter Your Brain

    Neal Shusterman

    From award-winner Neal Shusterman-author of The Dark Side of Nowhere and Scorpion Shards-comes a spectacular collection of stories that are by turns terrifying, comic, darkly inventive, thought-provoking, and always just slightly off-center.
    ...

  • The Shadow Club Rising

    Neal Shusterman

    The Shadow Club doesn't exist anymore. The group of second-best kids used to play anonymous practical jokes on their rivals, until things spiraled out of control. Now Jared and the ex-Shadow Club members are having a hard time shaking their reputatio...

  • The Illuminated Soul

    Aryeh Lev Stollman

    Fleeing Prague in the wake of the outbreak of World War II, scientist Eva Laquedem wanders the world aimlessly, drifting rootlessly from place to place until she arrives in Windsor, Canada, at the home of a devout widow with two sons, carrying the Au...

  • Over the Wall

    John H. Ritter

    Tyler's temper is out of control. If he isn't careful, he'll blow his chances of making the All-Star team and being noticed by a scout. But Tyler's coach, a Vietnam War veteran, has seen anger destroy enough people. He knows that if Tyler is ever goi...

  • Combat, Volume 2

    Stephen Coonts

    An historic landmark collection, Combat, Vol. 2 depicts war as it is and soon will be-the shape of war to come.Featuring: Stephen Coonts, who tells the tale of an unlikely partnership between an ex-Marine sniper and a female military pilot who team u...

  • Bearum Scarum

    Victoria Parker

  • Hen Goes Shopping

    Mark Birchall

  • Be Brown!

    Barbara Bottner

  • When the Pigs Took Over

    Arthur Dorros

    Having always been eccentric, it is expected by the customers at Don Carlos's restaurant to get huge platters of interesting food, but when he introduces snails to the menu, things go awry and soon the whole town is in an uproar....

  • Good Job, Little Bear

    Barbara Firth

    While exploring in the forest with Big Bear, Little Bear sets out all by himself to find a rock to climb and an old bendy tree to bounce on. Every step of the way, Big Bear is there to praise him for a job well done. But when Little Bear tries to cro...

  • Rocky: The Cat Who Barks

    Donna Jo Napoli

    Rocky the dog has a difficult life when he first moves into a house with five cats, but when his stouthearted bark stops the naughty, teasing kids in their tracks, Rocky earns the respect of the felines and his place as an honorary cat....

  • Fun with Mo and Ella

    Tui T. Sutherland

    Offers preschoolers two tales about best friends Mo the mouse and Ella the elephant as they attempt to make birthday presents for one another and meet a new friend who Mo is worried may take her special place in Ella's life. Original....

  • The Poltergoose

    Michael Lawrence

    After being poked in the rear numerous times by something he can't see, Jiggy McCue discovers that his new home, Brook Farm Estates, is haunted by a ghostly goose, so he turns to Pete and Angie to help him rid his residence of this troublesome animal...

  • Night Flight

    S.A. Kramer

    Offers young readers the story of this celebrated pilot's historical solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean seventy-five years ago and explains why his task was so challenging and its successful completion so incredible. Simultaneous....

  • If the Shoe Fits

    Gary Soto

    Rigo doesn't like being the youngest brother. He always has to wear his big brothers' hand-me-downs. Plus, his brothers-Hector, Manuel, and Carlos-always seem to lose buttons, rip holes, and wear the clothes out before they get to Rigo! But Rigo's lu...

  • They Call Me Woolly: What Animal Names Can Tell Us

    Keith DuQuette

    Simple text and bold illustrations introduce young readers to the animal world by demonstrating how an animal's name can provide great information about their look, origins, and eating habits, such as the rat snake and African elephant. Jr Lib Guild....

  • Pup Just for Me, a Boy Just for Me

    Dorothea P. Seeber

  • Tiger Woods

    Andrew Gutelle

    A legend in his time! Tiger Woods has been a fixture in the world of golf since playing in his first professional tournament in 1992 at the age of 16. Since then he was won 37 tournaments, including all four majors. On April 8, 2001, at the age of 25...

  • Deep in the Shade of Paradise

    John Dufresne

    "A comic opera…tuneful, playful." -- New York Times Book ReviewIn Shiver-de-Freeze, Louisiana (population 375), friends and family have gathered for the impending nuptials of Grisham Loudermilk and Ariane Thevenot. This will be no ordinary wedding...

  • The Big Day

    Barry Unsworth

    It was a big day for Cuthbertson's Regional School, and it would go off like a bomb. Donald Cuthbertson prided himself on being a model for his students and teachers, but he had lately begun to lose his focus. Degree Day is approaching, along with a ...

  • The Greeks Have a Word for It

    Barry Unsworth

    When two men disembark from the same boat in Greece, their lives accidentally and frighteningly intersect. Kennedy, an opportunist, orchestrates a scam that will have some intended and some thoroughly unintended consequences. For Mitsos, an unresolve...

  • The Case of the Murdered Muckraker

    Carola Dunn

    Now, 1923 New York, with its speakeasies and sharp wits, comes to vibrant life, as dauntless sleuth Daisy Dalrymple discovers that a guest at her honeymoon hotel has checked out...permanently. The Honorable Daisy Dalrymple, now Mrs. Daisy Fletcher...

  • Bad Seed

    Beth Saulnier

    Hip, sexy, and sassy, Alex Bernier dazzles as a big-idea reporter for a small-time paper in upstate New York. But when fierce protests erupt at the local university over genetically engineered crops, she finds herself in a maelstrom of explosions, po...

  • Without a Name and Under the Tongue

    Yvonne Vera

    Yvonne Vera's novels chronicle the lives of Zimbabwean women with extraordinary power and beauty. Without a Name and Under the Tongue, her two earliest novels, are set in the seventies during the guerrilla war against the white government.

    I...

  • The Glass Palace

    Amitav Ghosh

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND LOS ANGELES TIMES“A rich, layered epic that probes the meaning of identity and homeland -- a literary territory that is as resonant now, in our g...

  • Manifold: Origin

    Stephen Baxter

    “One of the best SF writers in the business . . . [Manifold: Origin is] filled with marvelous scientific speculations, strange events, novel concepts, and an awe-inspiring sense of the wonders of the universe.” -- Science Fiction Chronicle In ...

  • House of Women

    Lynn Freed

    Notable Book of the Year, New York Times Book ReviewHouse of Women is the story of three unusual women â€" seventeen-year-old Thea, her mother Nalia, an opera singer and Holocaust survivor, and Maude, their dour and religious housekeeper. It is the s...

  • The Banyan Tree

    Christopher Nolan

    Covering the eighty-plus years of the life of Minnie O’Brien, The Banyan Tree is a rich saga of rural Ireland in the twentieth century. In prose as lushly layered as the land it describes, Nolan lovingly details the triumphs and tragedies of this s...

  • Red Poppies

    Alai

    This suspenseful saga of Tibet during the rise of Chinese Communism “conjures up a faraway world . . . panoramic and intimate at the same time” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times). A lively and cinematic twentieth-century e...

  • I Was a Rat!...or the Scarlet Slippers

    Philip Pullman

    "I WAS A RAT!" So insists a scruffy boy named Roger. Maybe it's true. But what is he now? A terrifying monster running wild in the sewers? The Daily Scourge is sure of it. A victim of "Rodent Delusion"? The hospital nurse says yes. A lucrative fai...

  • Gauchada

    C. Drew Lamm

    The gauchada offered in this story is a necklace -- a token made by a gaucho’s own hand and given with love. First it is given to a grandmother, who cherishes it until she feels moved to give an unexpected gift to someone else. In this way, the nec...

  • Wiggle Waggle Fun

    Margaret Mayo (1)

    Waggle my fingers
    And wriggle my toes
    Waggle my shoulders
    And wiggle my nose.

    Here in one sumptuous collection are fun-filled stories and rhymes about teddy bears, tractors, animals, playtime, bathtime, and bedtime. Wiggle Waggle Fu...

  • Becoming Mary Mehan

    Jennifer Armstrong

    Jennifer Armstrong’s two masterful novels about Mary Mehan are now together in one volume. Set against the pivotal events of the American Civil War, The Dreams of Mairhe Mehan depicts an Irish immigrant girl and her family, struggling to find their...

  • Tria and the Great Star Rescue

    Rebecca Kraft Rector

    Tria never, ever goes Outside -- that’s where germs are . . . and living, bacteria-breathing humans! She’d much rather stay inside her pod with her best friend, a hologram named Star. But now she doesn’t have a choice. Her mom has disappeared a...

  • The City of Ink Drinkers

    Eric Sanvoisin

    It’s moving time for the ink drinkers Odilon, Carmilla, and Draculink. They need to find a new cemetery in which to plunk down their coffins -- and quickly! Otherwise Draculink will crumble into dust and Carmilla will leave for good. Can Odilon com...

  • The Uninvited Guests

    Hilda Stahl

    This series has been popular with young girls for over two decades, and the updated series is sure to be a favorite of this generation too. Elizabeth Gail Dobbs ("Libby") is a foster child and the newest member of the Johnson family. Libby's new Chri...

  • The Lecturer's Tale

    James Hynes

    The author of Publish and Perish returns with a Faustian tale of the horrors of academeNelson Humbolt is a visiting adjunct English lecturer at prestigious Midwest University, until he is unceremoniously fired one autumn morning. Minutes after the ax...

  • Achilles

    Elizabeth Cook

    This powerful, passionate, and beautifully crafted retelling of the epic tale of Achilles re-creates Homer's fated hero in a new and striking reality. Born of the Sea nymph Thetis by the mortal King Peleus, and hidden as a girl until Odysseus discove...

  • Warmth in Winter

    Lori Copeland; Angela Elwell Hunt

    WELCOME TO THE ISLAND OF HEAVENLY DAZE…Where Guardian Angels Keep Watch over a Community off the Coast of Maine. The guardian angels of Heavenly Daze Island really have their hands full when two of the town's quirkiest citizens, Vernie and Salt, t...

  • The Cat Next Door

    Marian Babson

    A suspenseful tale of murder and mystery in a dysfunctional British family: “Babson is as easy to read as ever” (Kirkus Reviews).   Margot has come back to England from America to show solidarity with her extended family in the midst of a sc...

  • Conflict of Interest

    Nancy Taylor Rosenberg

    Joanne Kuhlman is a razor-sharp Assistant District Attorney, the kind of prosecutor who shows no mercy to the guilty and gets her conviction. That changes when she finds herself in the unfamiliar position of feeling sympathy for a defendant--a young ...

  • The Knight and the Rose

    Isolde Martyn

    He is her only means of escape... Lady Johanna FitzHenry is trapped. Her arranged marriage to Sir Fulk de Enderby--a veteran of the wars against Robert the Bruce--keeps her tethered to this brutal man, who sees her only as a means to her father's...

  • Savannah Blues

    Mary Kay Andrews

    A Novel of Divorce, Revenge, and Great Antiques Landing a catch like Talmadge Evans III got Eloise "Weezie" Foley a jewel of a town house in Savannahs historic district. Divorcing Tat got her exited to the backyard carriage house, where she has la...

  • The Summons

    John Grisham

    Once Judge Atlee was a powerful figure in Clanton, Mississippi--a pillar of the community who towered over local law and politics for forty years. Now the judge is a shadow of his former self, a sick, lonely old man who has withdrawn to his sprawling...

  • Payback

    Melinda Metz

    Just want to get over it. She touches your fingerprints. She knows your thoughts. Yana was my best friend -- and Yana wanted me dead. I should hate her for what she tried to do. But the people who stole what she loved most -- they did the same ...

  • The Dream of the Broken Horses

    William Bayer

    One hot summer afternoon a quarter century ago, a wealthy socialite and her young lover were gunned down in a cheap motel room on the outskirts of the Midwestern city of Calista. Forensic sketch-artist David Weiss has been haunted by the notorious...

  • Shiva Option

    David Weber; Steve White

    DEFEAT WAS NOT AN OPTION! The war wasn't going well. The "Bugs" had overrun planet after planet . . . and they regarded all sentient species as convenient protein sources. Defeat was not an option. The Grand Alliance of Humans, Orions, Ophiuchi, a...

  • The Search for Joyful

    Benedict Freedman

    In this long-awaited sequel to the “unforgettable” (Boston Herald) bestseller Mrs. Mike, Benedict and Nancy Freedman paint a portrait of the World War II era -- as seen through the eyes of a young Cree woman on her own for the very first time…W...

  • The Sweetest Dream

    Doris Lessing

    “[Lessing] is a pro, writing at the top of her powers, realistically, passionately, accessibly…. a stirring novel” -- San Francisco ChronicleFrances Lennox stands at her stove, bringing another feast to readiness before ladling it out to the yo...

  • Channeling Cleopatra

    Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

    Powerful. Beautiful. Seductive. Cleopatra had it all. And soon any woman will be able to share her secrets, her wiles, her ways with men--for a price. Genetic research has advanced to the stage of "blending," the transplantation of cellular memory fr...

  • Distance Runner

    Joanna Campbell

    A competitive bug is sweeping through Whitebrook Farm. Image, Star, and Gratis are all contenders for the Triple Crown races, which begins with the Kentucky Derby, a little over a month away.

    Christina canâ€t stand the pressure. So, when...

  • Women Before the Bench

    Berkley Publishing Group

    This ingenious anthology of legal drama and suspense features all-new tories by some of the top writers in the field, featuring:
    Perri O'Shaughnessy
    Margaret Maron
    Margaret Coel
    Jonnie Jacobs
    Taffy Cannon
    Michael A. Kahn
    C...

  • Dinner with the Dodos

    Leslie Goldman

    What do human babies eat, anyway?

    Manny, Sid and Diego need to get Roshan back to his family. But before that they need to find him some dinner. Will the dodos get in their way? Find out in this hilarious story featuring all the great charac...

  • Diego's Journey

    Cathy Hapka / Catherine Hapka

    This book is a thrilling retelling of the movie's story from Diego's perspective - his journey from bully to best buddy.

    Perfect for middle-grade readers, with language young fans can read themselves and packed with colour illustrations.

  • Alternate Gettysburgs

    Berkley Publishing Group

    An anthology of twelve original short stories and four essays explores the role and implications of the Battle of Gettysburg in American history as it presents an alternate history approach to the subject in works by Harold Coyle, Doug Allyn, Jim DeF...

  • Ice Age: The Movie Novel

    Gene Hult

    Follow the road to adventure.

    Trail along with a trio of unlikely friends -- a moody mammoth named Manfred, a wisecracking sloth named Sid, and a scheming saber-toothed tiger named Diego -- on an exciting and sometimes dangerous quest to ret...

  • The Apprentice

    Lewis Libby

    The Apprentice takes place in a remote mountain inn in northernmost Japan, where a raging blizzard has brought together wayfarers who share only fear and suspicion of one another. It is the winter of 1903, the country is beset with smallpox and war i...

  • Just Beyond Tomorrow

    Bertrice Small

    With his father dead and his mother in France, Patrick Leslie, Duke of Glenkirk, discovers the obligations of the estate and its people are now his alone. But during a day of hunting, a chance meeting ensures that he will not be alone much longer, fo...

  • Cherish the Flame

    Beverly Clark

  • Andrew And Joey

    Jamie James

    When Joey, a hot-blooded Cajun choreographer, is awarded a grant to fund a year of study and dance in Bali, he spirits Andrew, his reluctant lover of fourteen years, to Bali, but when Joey engages in a bevy of steamy indiscretions, Andrew is crushed ...

  • Forever

    Timmothy B. Mccann

    In the sequel to critically acclaimed Until, Drew Staley, grieving over the death of his fiancT, finds a soulmate in Betty Robinson, who teaches him to believe in love again, but after a hasty marriage, they slowly drift apart and complicatio...

  • Coincidence

    David Ambrose

    A wrong number here, a case of mistaken identity there, a chance meeting with a stranger who knows your best friend. Most people dismiss such things as trivial, unimportant. Mere coincidence. Or could there be a hidden pattern in these seemingly rand...

  • Ransom Island

    Christopher Nicole

    Sophie Gallagher drives a tour bus on the island of Guernsey, with nothing more important to consider than how to show off the sleepy little island to its best advantage, and perhaps her eventual marriage to her partner, Assistant Harbormaster James ...

  • Murder in the Central Committee

    Manuel Vazquez Montalban

    ";Montalbán writes with authority and compassion€Â"a le CarrĂ©-like sorrow.";€Â"Publishers WeeklyThe lights go out during a meeting of the Central Committee of the Spanish Communist Party; Fernando Garrido, the general secretary, has been murdered...

  • The Broken Lands

    Robert Edric

    The Broken Lands-a treacherous labyrinth of ice through which the fabled Northwest Passage was sought for centuries. Cabot, Frobisher, Hudson, Parry and Ross were all defeated, and the names on the maps testify to their despair: Bay of God's Mercy, t...

  • Shadowsinger

    L.E. Modesitt Jr.

    The Shadow Sorceress, concludes New York Times bestselling author L. E. Modesitt, Jr.'s epic fantasy series the Spellsong Cycle begins a new story arc for a new cycle of tales starring a new heroine who must face a series of deadly political and mili...

  • X Men: The Fall of the Mutants

    Chris Claremont

    The body count rises higher than ever as the X-Men and their allies face war on every front! X-Factor comes up against their deadliest challenge in Apocalypse. The New Mutants lose one of their own! And after the Marauders slaughter the Morlocks, the...

  • Timeless Love

    Judith O'Brien

    THE MAGIC CHARM It was a lovely silver necklace with a strange antique charm--an early sixteenth birthday present from her parents. But now Samantha clutched the charm, desperate to disappear 'when her father discovered she'd wrecked his BMW . . . S...

  • Haunted

    Jeff Mariotte

    Even if it takes an eternity, he will make amends... FEAR FACTOR Cordelia's getting her first big break -- as a contestant on yet another twist on "reality programming." The catch? She has to spend five days and four nights in a so-called haunt...

  • The McCallum Quintuplets: Great Expectations

    Kasey Michaels

    When Madeline Sheppard gets a birthday makeover, will her best friend and secret crush, Ian Russell, finally see her for the woman she is?...

  • The Maltese Star

    Deborah Johns

    Honor Determined to prove himself to his disgraced father's aristocratic family, mercenary Severin Brigante Harnoncourt joins forces with the Duke of Burgundy in securing the great fortress of Mercier, a stronghold vital to the Duke's battle to cl...

  • Pacific Polecoats

    Jon Sharpe

    Skye Fargo prowls the Pacific Northwest in a fight for a family fortune...Skye Fargo rides into a war between two rival English clans-and discovers that when you mix family feuding with power and passion, there's no such thing as too many lies, too l...

  • Brothers of the Gun

    Cotton Smith

    When his brutal half-brother Star McCallister goes on a murderous spree of vengeance after he escapes from jail, killing two of John's friends and kidnapping his sister's children, former Texas Ranger John Checker travels into the heart of the wilder...

  • Midnight Embrace

    Amanda Ashley

    ANALISA... He whispers her name, and it echoes back to him on the wings of the night. She is so young, so alive. She radiates warmth and goodness, chasing the coldness from his being, banishing the loneliness from his soul. In four centuries of prow...

  • Something Wild

    Patti Berg

    Wilde Thing Charity Wilde didn't come all the way to Wyoming just to be saddled with some cowboy! The leggy showgirl only wants a quiet time with family before she heads back to Vegas. So why do Mike Flynn's emerald eyes make her knees go weak? Fame...

  • Wall of Guns

    Jim O'Mara

    Carolina Steele built her ranching empire the hard way-with lies, lawyers, and outright murder. But as she takes the last steps to secure her power, a gunslinger with a grudge uncovers her dastardly plans-and prepares to shoot her empire to the groun...

  • Please Remember This

    Kathleen Gilles Seidel

    HOME...SUNLIT MEMORIES AND SHADOWED SECRETS It has always been a burden for quiet, level-headed Tess Lanier to be the daughter of Nina Lane -- the gifted and tormented author who died soon after Tess's birth. Determined to be nothing like her exub...

  • My Lady Valiant

    Valerie King

    Can A Determined Young Lady Bring A Rake Up To Scratch? Anne Delamere is outraged. The fact that the infamous rogue, the Earl of Staverton, has broken another heart is not surprising, but the idea that he has trifled with her cousin, Cassie, is be...

  • Seduced in Seattle

    Kristin Gabriel

    Can a skirt really act as a man-magnet? Kate Talavera is a true believer. After all, the skirt has already snared husbands for her two best friends! So when seriously sexy Brock Gannon storms back into her life after 12 years, and makes it plain that...

  • The Devil and Lou Prophet

    Peter Brandvold

    As bounty hunter Lou Prophet searches for gorgeous showgirl Lola Diamond, the missing prime witness in a murder trial, he soon discovers that he and his lovely quarry have become the target of some dangerous men who will do anything to ensure that Lo...

  • Longarm on a Witch-Hunt

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm’s in for a cauldron of trouble with these ladies!Lawman Custis Long is in town on the trail of some no-good owlhoots. An easy enough chase, he reckons, but after a visit with the town’s most infamous lady of the night, Longarm realizes th...

  • Maternally Yours

    Kathie DeNosky

    Brett Connelly loved women -- and he liked kids as much as the next guy. Still, the playboy tycoon wasn't about to trade his Jag for a minivan. Why, then, his sudden urge to rescue pregnant detective Elena Delgado? The fiercely independent Elena r...

  • With Family in Mind

    Sharon De Vita

    Armed with a new name and an icy facade, reporter Rebecca St. John returned to Saddle Falls to bury her shameful past -- and unearth the secrets that had haunted her since childhood. But she'd have to investigate the publicity-shy Ryan family, still ...

  • A Much Compromised Lady

    Shannon Donnelly

    WILL A NOTORIOUS RAKE BE HER KEY TO RESPECTABILITY? Glynis Chatwin has dreamed of becoming a respectable lady for as long as she can remember. Uncovering evidence of her stolen birthright is her only aim when she hides in a deserted bedchamber--bu...

  • Coming Up Roses

    Alice Duncan

    Let Me Call You Sweetheart Rose Ellen Gilhooley didn't get to be a star in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show for nothing. Bareback riding and shooting, along with some pretty sharp instincts, have taken her worlds away from the sleepy Kansas t...

  • Pride and Prudence

    Malia Martin

    A CHAMPION'S PRIDE The heroic exploits of dashing Captain James Ashley have made him an idol in the eyes of an adoring public. But in London's salons, the society ladies whisper that "The Most Delectable Man in England" is good for only one thing....

  • No Compromise

    Rochelle Alers

    As the driven executive director of The Sanctuary, a program dedicated to reaching out to victimized women, Jolene Walker has neither the time nor the energy for a personal life...until she meets United States Army Captain Michael Kirkland, a sexy, p...

  • July Thunder

    Rachel Lee

    A searing tale of love and redemption... Deputy Sheriff Sam Canfield is a man shouldering too many burdens. He defied his demanding father to become a cop and marry the woman he loved, never for an instant regretting his choice. Then his wife's tr...

  • The Dream Factory

    Janet Leigh

    When Eve Handel, one of the few women in Hollywood with the power to make or break a star, is hospitalized due to a life-threatening illness, those closest to her become concerned for their reputations, because Eve's journal full of dark secrets is m...

  • You Call This Romance?

    Barbara Daly

    Cabot Drennan might be the sexiest man travel agent Faith Sumner has ever met, but she's not at all impressed by his idea of a romantic honeymoon. The jungle fantasy suite? Cameramen filming everything? And he has the gall to demand that Faith stand ...

  • The Reluctant Reformer // A Lady in Disguise

    Lynsay Sands

    LADY X Everyone knows of Lady X. The masked courtesan is reputedly a noblewoman fallen on hard times. What Lord James did not know was that she was Lady Margaret Wentworth--the feisty sister of his best friend, who has forced James into an oath of p...

  • Come Midnight

    Veronica Sattler

    WHEN THE DEVIL CALLS THE TUNE... Love is hardly the problem when Adam Lightfoot, Marquis of Ravenskeep summons forth the devil. To save his young son's life, Adam is willing to do anything, and striking a reckless deal with Lucifer--otherwise kn...

  • The Playboy Sheikh

    Alexandra Sellers

    "You're mine and no other man's." -- Jafar al Hamzeh, Royal Advisor Extraordinaire Savoring the look on his ex-lover's face, he swept her astride his regal steed, then raced toward his desert domain. Once, he'd envisaged Lisbet Raine as mother to...

  • Miss Grantham's One True Sin

    Melynda Beth Skinner

    What happens when a lovers' masquerade becomes real? WORDS MAY DECEIVE... Marianna Grantham's status-hungry parents are bent on buying their way into Polite Society through their daughter's marriage to a peer -- any peer. When the Mar...

  • One Wild Rose

    Geri Borcz

    NOT EVEN A RANGER CAN RESIST A PERFECT ROSE Roselyn O'Neill's mother--a saloon singer with unfortunate taste in men--may have ensured her daughter's childhood was a colorful adventure, but after years of one-horse towns and embarrassing scrapes, R...

  • Cordina's Crown Jewel

    Nora Roberts

    RUNAWAY PRINCESS For a few blessed weeks, Her Royal Highness Camilla de Cordina could be just plain Camilla MacGee. And working for Delaney Caine in Vermont's backwoods offered a perfect refuge from the press. But as her irritation toward the cant...

  • A Mother to His Children

    K.N. Casper

    When Julie First's boyfriend proposes on the condition that she devote herself to him and his banking career, she can't flee fast enough. She's going to put all her energy into working for the school district, instead, now that she's received her mas...

  • Noble Intentions

    Katie MacAlister

    HEAD OVER HEELS IN LOVE Noble Britton had suffered greatly at the hands of his first wife, and he refused to fall into the same trap again. This time he intended to marry a quiet, biddable woman who would not draw attention to herself or cause sca...

  • So Wild a Heart

    Candace Camp

    Generations ago, the Aincourt family was given a title and land for their loyalty to the king. But the former abbey they received came with a price -- a curse that no family member would ever know happiness. Devin Aincourt, Earl of Ravenscar, make...

  • A Second-Chance Proposal // A Cowboy's Proposal

    C.J. Carmichael

    He's back! Two years ago, almost everyone in Canmore, Alberta, thought Dylan McLean was responsible for the death of a teenage girl on his father's ranch. Only Cathleen Shannon believed he was innocent. Then he left her at the altar and fled to...

  • Savage Moon

    Cassie Edwards

    Night after night she saw him in her dreams. A warrior, his body golden bronze, his hair raven black. He knew he was the one destined to make her a woman, the one who would bring her the love she'd lost so many years before. As a mere child of ten...

  • Innocent Lies

    Diane Escalera

    Paradise Found A head-to-toe makeover by her hairdresser pal? Sure. Even a shy science teacher like Nina Nieves couldn't say no to a birthday present like that. Decked out in a devil-red dress, high heels, and a flirty ponytail, she's ready to par...

  • Sweet Violet

    Corinne Everett

    A Love In Bloom With her parents on an extended trip to Boston, feisty Virginia beauty Violet Pearson is determined to prove she can manage the family concern, Tidewater Nurseries. And now, with the planned opening of a lavish new conservatory by ...

  • A Shocking Request

    Colleen Faulkner

    Never in a million years had Grant expected this. His late wife, Ally, speaking on a memory videotape she'd left behind, was actually suggesting he start dating. "Date?" Grant thought aloud. "Who would I date? Who wants a widower w...

  • My Lady's Temptation

    Denise Hampton

    A KNIGHT'S DUTY... When dashing Josce FitzBaldwin gallops into Knabwell in search of revenge, he never expects to find...a bride! The beauty and grace of Elianne du Hommet -- the penniless daughter of the local sheriff -- entices Josce as no w...

  • When I Fall in Love

    Tamara Sneed

    One of San Francisco's most eligible bachelors, Police Inspector Logan Riley is handsome, charming, and never lacking for dates. But anyone who knows Logan also knows that his relationship with women only amount to"five-weekers"--unions that end abr...

  • The C.E.O.'s Unplanned Proposal

    Karen Toller Whittenburg

    Cinderella by Mistake! When a case of mistaken identity landed Katie Canton in the Braddock world of wealth and power, she couldn't resist the temptation to mingle with the famous family. Especially fascinating eldest brother, Adam. Getting the co...

  • The McCallum Quintuplets: And Babies Make Seven

    Mary Anne Wilson

    Will a weekend getaway in a secluded cabin rekindle the sparks between new parents Adam and Maggie McCallum?...

  • A Perfect Mismatch

    Catherine Blair

    SHE AIMS TO BE HIS PERFECT MATCH... Celia Jordan has loved Lord Dorian Leydon for as long as she can remember -- and now that he's been jilted by a social climber, she's ready to set her sites on him in earnest. Since he's never paid the...

  • She's Having My Baby!

    Raye Morgan

    To: Sharon, Jen, Lauren, Julia From: Maggie Date: 2/02 RE: The boss's little secret... It's true -- I'm pregnant! I've kept it quiet because I wasn't sure how you'd react to my visiting a sperm bank. You know all the ...

  • Wild and Wicked

    Lisa Jackson

    Every eye in the great hall was on Lady Apryll. In a clinging white gown, she floated through the revelers-like a wanton angel, inflaming the interest of Lord Devlynn. Brazenly he took her in his arms and promised her ecstasy. Before the night was ov...

  • Uncovered Passion

    Courtni Wright

    Will a Friendship Rediscovered... Denise Dory has proven herself as a top-flight detective with a suburban Maryland police department. Now her unique skills have landed her a prestigious position on the Special Task Force investigating the death of ...

  • When the Halo Falls

    Kathleen Kane

    It was strictly against the rules for Patience Goodfellow to fall in love with Brady Shaw, saloon wonder, ex-gunfighter, and ladies' man. But Patience knew he had a heart of gold. She should. She had been his guardian angel since he was eleven years ...

  • The Soldier's Bride

    April Kihlstrom

    A Marriage of Convenience Lisbeth Barlow has never much cared for the notion of marriage--all duty and appearances and submitting to one's husband. But when Lord Thomas Kepley arrives one morning to ask for her hand, he has none of those conventio...

  • Hometown Girl

    Mary Jane Meier

    There's no place like home Lauren Van Horn, a big-city environmental lawyer, isn't as tough as people think she is, or as content with her life as she pretends. So when her sister, Becca, begs for Lauren's help in dealing with a personal crisis, L...

  • Are You for Real?

    Barbara Daly

    Charity Sumner is a scientist, not just another pretty face, and she intends to prove it! Disguising herself as a plain Jane, she ventures to win a position with the brilliant Dr. Jason Segal. But the only position Jason is interested in at the momen...

  • Cash

    Linda Devlin

    A Face From His Past To the folks in tiny Rock Creek, Texas, Daniel Cash was a ladies' man with a smile as quick as his draw. Yet the infamous gunslinger with the legendary charm harbored painful memories of the girl he'd left behind when ...

  • Dark of the Night

    Dee Davis

    When she was only eight years old, Riley O'Brien survived the unimaginable: the deaths of her mother and sister. As a result she vowed never to desert her father, a brilliant young congressman whose star was on the rise. Now, twenty-one years later, ...

  • Outcast

    Kathryn Hockett

    She Met Her Match Though she's never laid eyes on him, flame-haired Erica of Clan MacQuarrie is defiantly proud that her father was a Viking Jarl. Around her neck she wears the garnet pendant he gave to her mother, and vows someday to follow her V...

  • The Other Side of Paradise

    Elia Esparza

    Vision In White Daisy Magdalena O'Neal just got lucky--she found the perfect wedding dress in a thrift store! The antique gown is in pristine condition and it fits as if it had been made just for her. However, there's one small complication: Daisy...

  • Catch of the Day

    Marcia Evanick

    HOOKED ON LOVE Misty Harbor, Maine, is awash in eligible bachelors--and as the only single gal in town, newcomer Gwen Fletcher is surrounded by potential suitors. The trouble is, she's got a restaurant to renovate, and the carpenter she's hired se...

  • Simply Marvelous

    Shelby Lewis

    Note to Self: Track Down Murderer Florist Daisy Rogers was hoping that her very first flower show would gain her garden shop national exposure. But not the kind that comes from the murder of her guest speaker--celebrity horticulturist Kandi Kane. Da...

  • The McCallum Quintuplets: Delivered with a Kiss

    Mindy Neff

    After sharing a tantalizing kiss with his loyal nurse, can Dr. Zachary Beaumont remain immune to the fierce passion Annabelle Reardon's presence arouses?...

  • The Renegade's Heart

    Stobie Piel

    Melanie Ann Muessen rides through the sunburnt plains of New Mexico Territory to photograph its inhabitants in their natural surroundings. What she discovers is a village in crisis. Years before, Rafael de Aguirre became the Renegade and protected th...

  • Right Where He Belongs

    Rebecca Russell

    Revenge had brought Tanner Fairfax to the small town of New Haven, Ohio...and Cassie Leighton gave him ample reason to stay. The terms of his grandfather's will stated Tanner needed just 30 days in the old man's house before he could sell his unwante...

  • A Rake's Redemption

    Donna Simpson

    Can love reform a rogue? A GOOD DEED UNDONE? Phaedra Gillian, spinster daughter of a rural vicar, has found an unconscious gentleman by the roadside. Taught to be a good Samaritan, she takes into her home the greatest temptation of her life! Fo...

  • Bittersweet Passion

    Peggy Webb

    When minister Daniel Westmoreland met Skylar Tate, he knew he'd found paradise. She was a drop-dead-gorgeous singer with a voice that sent the angels swooning. But Skylar's father was also a preacher... and their rocky relationship had caused her to ...

  • The Hearse Case Scenario

    Tim Cockey

    Baltimore's sexiest undertaker, Hitchcock Sewell, is once again cruising for trouble. A childhood friend has been charged with the murder of a local nightclub owner, but Hitch, in his heart, knows she didn't do it. Problem is, the friend has gone ...

  • Tropical Heat

    John A. Miller

    "[Miller] draws the 1950s perfectly. . . [Tropical Heat] is a finely crafted, superbly written novel that deserves wide readership." -- Publishers Weekly, ** starred review ** When an army officer is found dead in the small Virginia town of Hopewell,...

  • Raymond Chandler in the Marble Orchard

    William F. Nolan

    The year is 1936, and Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Erle Stanley Gardner have taken to solving crimes as amateur detectives. As narrated by Chandler, their latest adventure begins in East Los Angeles, with the discovery of what is apparentl...

  • Venom

    Jeffrey Ames

    COME INTO MY PARLOR To those hunting him, he is the Fiddleback--an inhuman predator with a taste for human prey and an appetite for torture. SAID THE SPIDER TO THE FLY To his victims, he is a nightmare come to life at the moment of death. His mo...

  • Tomcat

    David E. Meadows

    When all hope is lost, keep fighting. The rebel coup in Algeria has crippled the U.S. military position and taken fifty Americans hostage. A botched rescue mission has trapped a team of American soldiers far behind enemy lines to face a group of d...

  • Prodigal Chalice

    James Axler

    DESTINY'S HOSTAGE The treacherous new frontier of future America is plagued by civil war among the nine mysterious barons who rule with absolute power. As this race of human hybrids struggles to keep the eons-old yoke of true humanity's slavery in...

  • Motion to Kill

    Joel Goldman

    MOVING TARGET Richard Sullivan was at the top of his profession, a rainmaker in a powerful Kansas City law firm--until his body washed up on the shores of a Missouri lake. Now the questions about his death, and his life, are reverberating through a f...

  • Fire Wind

    Don Pendleton

    DEATH CLAUSE A black ops project has gone rogue, sending Mack Bolan into the world of shadow players and classified games as traitors in high places prepare to sell out America to terrorism and mass murder. In a mission where everyone has somethin...

  • Sky Killers

    Don Pendleton

    HUNTER/KILLER Stony Man monitors threats to the free world--and delivers swift action when crisis strikes. Deep inside the compound's war room, an elite group of warriors engages in state-of-the-art cyber battle--while the hard force in the field ta...

  • Changer of Worlds

    David Weber

    WELCOME AGAIN TO THE MANY WORLDS OF HONOR Lady Dame Honor Harrington--starship captain, admiral, Steadholder, and Duchess--has spent decades defending the Star Kingdom of Manticore. But it's a big universe, and Honor's actions affect a lot of live...

  • Belarus

    Lee Hogan

    It's a planet ripe for a new vision-of a glorious past that once was, and could be again. Andrei Mironenko, a powerful magnate in the Star republic, believes the pristine planet of Belarus is uninhabited and unspoiled.

    He didn't dig deep eno...

  • The Heretic Kings

    Paul Kearney

    In times of chaos, when everything familiar is made strange and nothing remains secure, the future of all people is shaped by the actions of a few... The resisters of terror When the power-hungry and fanatical Pius won himself enough allegiance e...

  • The Golden Orb

    Douglas Niles
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Brackenrock Towering aloof and secure, the isolated fortress offers humankind a place to survive and flourish in the barren realm of Icereach. Even the elven Messenger Kerrick Fallabrine has made a home there, living among the humans and teaching ...

  • Pandora's Legions

    Christopher Anvil

    IS IT TOO LATE TO NEGOTIATE A SURRENDER? The Centran Empire was both benevolent and complacent. Benevolent, even as it overwhelmed every new inhabited planet it encountered with its military might -- but once the planet was pacified, its inhabitan...

  • Immortal Coil

    Jeffrey Lang

    He is perhaps the ultimate human achievement: a sentient artificial life-form -- self-aware, self-determining, possessing a mind and body far surpassing that of his makers, and imbued with the potential to evolve beyond the scope of his programming. ...

  • The Hidden Dragon

    Irene Radford

    IT WAS A TIME FOR LEGENDS TO BE BORN.... Operating on the wrong side of interstellar law one time too many, the three O'Hara brothers found themselves in a life-or-death flight from the forces of the Galactic Terran Empire. In a last desperate man...

  • The Death Artist

    Dennis Etchison

    A thrilling collection of twelve stories, filled with the author's trademark terror and suspense, plunges readers into a nightmare world of the cursed and the damned where nothing is what it seems. Reprint....

  • Dark Magic

    Stephen Gresham

    FROM OUT OF THE PAST IT BECKONED… Unspoiled by the hand of civilization, the raw, savage swamplands of east Alabama radiate life forces both natural and supernatural. On the edge of this murky landscape reside the Fossor sisters -- Tina, Gretta,...

  • Lion's Blood

    Steven Barnes

    In ancient times, Carthage destroyed Rome, Europe remained tribal, and the New World was colonized by Islam. Now in 1863, bordered by fierce Azteca to the south and the red men's nations of the west, Bilalistan is a vast, rich land of mosques, kraals...

  • The Skull of the World

    Kate Forsyth

    Remember the words of the Soul-Sage: The fastest route is not always the straightest. In the land of Eileanan, the Pact of Peace has not meant the end of unrest. Isault and Lachlan must continue to deal with their military position in Tirsoilleir-...

  • The Book of Fours

    Nancy Holder

    "We're Slayers, girlfriend. The Chosen." -- Faith From a place of nightmares -- which Buffy and Faith share -- a terrible evil invades Sunnydale, setting off disaster. Clearly, the big evil is linked to the Slayers' nightmares, which revolve arou...

  • His Healing Touch

    Loree Lough

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  • A Perfect Match

    Debra Kastner

    She was goin' to the chapel...and she was going to get married -- to the dashing new minister. At least, that was Julia Evans's plan. Convinced holy matrimony should be based on more than romance, Julia was caught off guard when old-fashioned firewor...

  • This Time Forever

    Carol Steward

    Just when Adam MacIntyre answered his true calling at last, putting down roots on his Colorado ranch, along came footloose Lisa Berthoff to turn things upside down. His siblings might have marched down the aisle with hers, but Adam wasn't about to fa...

  • The Maverick

    Carrie Alexander

    Sophie Ryan was a girl from the wrong side of town, pregnant, uneducated, and alone. Now she's a sheriff's deputy and has managed to put the past behind her. It's been a long time since the gossips of Treetop, Wyoming, have speculated on the ident...

  • Air Ticket

    Susan Barrie

    Could their new love compete with the old? After lonely years of raising her daughter, Caro was free to begin a new life. Her quest for change led her to Switzerland -- and to tentative bliss in marriage to the handsome Dr. Lucien Andreas. Her ...

  • Private Investigations

    Jean Barrett

    TALL, DARK AND...DETERMINED TO "INVESTIGATE" THE GIRL NEXT DOOR! With his slow, seductive smile, broad shoulders, and massive chest, Dallas McFarland was a threat to any woman's heart, especially plain-Jane P.I. Christy Hawke's! Except Christy's pro...

  • A Length of Silk

    Tracey Victoria Bateman / Tracey Bateman
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    Always the obedient daughter, Zhao Hanshi has defied her parents by accepting Christianity. Now she must leave her homeland or be forced into a godless marriage. Stowing away on a merchant ship carrying Chinese silk and other treasures, she quickly r...

  • The Doctor's Homecoming // Wyatt

    Kate Bridges

    Coming home was hard, but Emma Sinclair feared leaving again would be even harder. Returning had resurrected all the joy and pain of her girlhood when she'd loved -- and lost -- rancher Wyatt Barlow. Was their renewed acquaintance a second chance at ...

  • The Millionaire's Pregnant Bride

    Dixie Browning

    THE MARRYING MILLIONAIRE Businessman William Bradford hadn't thought wedding bells were tolling for him until he met secretary Diana Foster, who was vulnerable, alone -- and just a little bit pregnant...with another man's child. His protective insti...

  • Least Likely to Wed

    Judy Christenberry

    The kiss was desperate, passionate, leaving Kelly Hampton no alternative but to smack the sinfully sexy cowboy who'd taken liberty with her lips. Didn't matter that Pete Crawford was her best friend's brother. Didn't matter that he'd handpicked her t...

  • Joyride

    Colleen Collins

    SHE'S HAVING THE RIDE OF HER LIFE... Corinne McCourt is starting over...the right way! After discovering her fiance with another woman, she's determined to be more daring, spontaneous...sexy. And what better way to begin than by swiping her fiance's...

  • Out of the Blue

    Katherine Deauxville

    Maryellen isn't sure whether to call the Men in Black or the men in white coats -- all she knows is that she is having an incredibly alien experience. The voice that comes out of her mouth isn't hers (she certainly wouldn't swear like tha...

  • The Crimson Brocade

    Susan K. Downs
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    From the day Han Shiren first learns of her arranged marriage to Shin Dewan, she dreams of the time when her betrothed will return to China and take her for his bride. Yet she fears her father's desire to see her wed to a Christian man may come to na...

  • Once a Father

    Marie Ferrarella

    When a bomb ripped through the Lone Star Country Club, all of Mission Creek, Texas, was shaken. Who was responsible? Was it the Mercados, Mission Creek's answer to the mob? The Carsons or the Wainwrights, two of the club's founding families? Or an ev...

  • Sgt. Billy's Bride

    Bonnie Gardner

    Desperate times call for desperate measures! So when general's daughter Darcy Stanton abruptly balked at marrying a macho military man, she shamelessly fled her wedding and hit the road running. But fickle fate delivered Darcy into the arms of...

  • Dr. Desirable

    Kristi Gold

    Michelle Lewis had had her fill of smooth-talking healers. But Dr. Nick Kempner was hard to resist...especially when the sexy single father invited her to his scenic lakefront home for some much-needed R & R. Beneath the PR guru's all-work-no-play...

  • Undercover Honeymoon

    Leigh Greenwood

    DANGEROUS GAMES This assignment was the most difficult of nurse Maggie Oliver's career. In order to save a sick baby, she had to go undercover. And the hardest part was that her cover was a make-believe honeymoon -- with the man who'd once been her ...

  • Sun-Kissed Baby

    Patricia Hagan

    Tragedy had left Carlee Denton to raise her best friend's baby, and her search for the little boy's father had led straight to Nick Starke. But she couldn't risk telling the handsome, wealthy orange grove owner that her new baby was his, too, until s...